Anybody wanting to try my shell script can download the following:
http://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/quake2-glx-launch.sh

And here is my all black Blackbox style:
http://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/Quake

Some information on the Big Gun map crash:
https://quake2.icculus.narkive.com/LrfU4VGF/big-gun-crash

And my raw Quake II timedemo data can be found here:
http://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/quake2-timedemos.txt

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As someone who admittedly never bought or played any of the Feral ports since they were tied to Steam, I have to wonder how much of a ripple effect Proton will have on the native games and developers I do support. I just hope that the kind of developers willing to go DRM free are also the ones most likely to see the benefits of cross-platform development.

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Quoting: HerrLangeWhere is Commander Keen?

I am assuming that the rights for that stayed with id Software, which then went to Zenimax... so talk to Microsoft?

More to the point, will Linux now get a release for Crystal Caves HD?

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Too hot to play anything that would tax my computers so I have just been playing Klondike and FreeCell through AisleRiot this weekend.

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Still holds the advantage when it comes to Icewind Dale II since Black Isle lost the original source code.

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Just as a little update, I have been too bogged down with lambing and calving to spend much time on the project, but I do intend to come back to it eventually. I still have a few levels of Scourge of Armagon to finish before I move on to anything else.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'm not sure I quite get this. So you're in charge of an immortal vampire fallen on hard times and your main objective in returning her fortunes is . . . find a better job?

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

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Quoting: CybolicThe Frogger soundtrack you say? Hmmm, not sure it has quite enough mummy vibes :P

The 1997 version of Frogger is a beautiful game with excellent graphics that lean into the technological limitations of the time to achieve something very stylish, and the music is amazing. With any other game though the result is hilarious.

It is just a shame the difficulty leaves it next to unplayable. Broadening the levels beyond a single screen would work fine but you need to have checkpoints after each frog for it to work. I am going off on a tangent now though.

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Quoting: CybolicI do remember thinking that some of the tracks were odd choices for some of the expansion levels (at the time, I didn't know they had their own soundtracks).

Yeah, for Scourge of Armagon at least the Trent Reznor music does not really fit, but the Jeehun Hwang soundtrack can charitably be described as generic at best. I got well into Dominion of Darkness before I learned that it had its own music, but at least I was able to unlock the secret levels when replaying it.

I was using a Windows Quake CD for the music as the Linux box is best kept as a collectible, but now I am using burned discs from the ripped cue sheets included with the GOG.com release. I have also seen it play with the Quake II CD as well as the 1997 Hasbro version of Frogger. Ribbit.

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Quoting: damarrinHamish, I have a Voodoo card I can send your way if you promise to send it back sometime this century.

At this point I am hesitant to take responsibility for anyone's hardware but my own but I appreciate the offer. I would be too nervous about it getting damaged, no matter how careful I am.

For the past month I have been trying to get one article out every Monday, but that is probably going to become more sporadic from here as I will actually need time to play the games in order to write about them. As the temperature goes up so does my workload, but I will keep writing as I can.

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